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Art Quotes by Paul Valery
- Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition…
- No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
- Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.…
- The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man…
- Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception,…
- An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of…
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov